Getty Images | Chesnot TikTok and its owner ByteDance today sued the federal government to block the “Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications” law that would prohibit TikTok in the US if the company isn’t sold to a non-Chinese firm. The complaint in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit alleges that the…
Enlarge / Ripton, VT – July 16, 2023: Ethan Poploski stood in front of his family’s home, which had been destroyed by a landslide overnight. Vermont may soon become the first state to force fossil fuel companies to pay their fair share to cover recovery efforts from climate change damages. This week, the state’s potentially…
Getty Images | SOPA Images T-Mobile is reportedly close to buying a portion of the regional carrier US Cellular, while Verizon has also held talks about buying some of US Cellular’s assets. “T-Mobile is closing in on a deal to buy a chunk of the regional carrier for more than $2 billion, taking over some…
Verizon T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T will pay a combined $10.2 million in a settlement with US states that alleged the carriers falsely advertised wireless plans as “unlimited” and phones as “free.” The deal was announced yesterday by New York Attorney General Letitia James. “A multistate investigation found that the companies made false claims in advertisements…
A US district judge William Alsup has dismissed Elon Musk’s X Corp’s lawsuit against Bright Data, a data-scraping company accused of improperly accessing X (formerly Twitter) systems and violating both X terms and state laws when scraping and selling data. X sued Bright Data to stop the company from scraping and selling X data to…
Enlarge / WETA “Gollum” figure at Arclight at the opening of “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” A day after announcing that the tentatively titled Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum was scheduled for a 2026 release, Warner Bros. immediately moved to block a beloved 2009 unauthorized fan film…
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino A Federal Bureau of Investigation official recently urged employees to “look for ways” to conduct warrantless surveillance on US residents, an internal email obtained by Wired shows. FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate’s email was reportedly sent on April 20, the same day President Biden signed a bill that was criticized as…
themotioncloud/Getty Images Ethan Zuckerman wants to release a tool that would allow Facebook users to control what appears in their newsfeeds. His privacy-friendly browser extension, Unfollow Everything 2.0, is designed to essentially give users a switch to turn the newsfeed on and off whenever they want, providing a way to eliminate or curate the feed.…
Getty Images | nadla The Federal Communications Commission clarified its net neutrality rules to prohibit more kinds of fast lanes. While the FCC voted to restore net neutrality rules on April 25, it didn’t release the final text of the order until yesterday. The final text has some changes compared to the draft version released…
Microsoft has introduced a GPT-4-based generative AI model designed specifically for US intelligence agencies that operates disconnected from the Internet, according to a Bloomberg report. This reportedly marks the first time Microsoft has deployed a major language model in a secure setting, designed to allow spy agencies to analyze top-secret information without connectivity risks—and to…
